Family of tortured transgender person claims victim died due to torture by Saudi police

Family members of a transgender person belonging from Swat, claim that Mohammad Amin alias Mino, had died due to torture by the police in Saudi Arabia and not because of cardiac arrest.

The family also insisted that the victim was not a transgender person, instead was a man and the head of their family.

A news conference was held by the victim’s son, Sher Zamin, at Peshawar Press Club on Thursday. During the conference, Zamin rejected the claim made by adviser to the prime minister on foreign affairs Sartaj Aziz about his father’s death in Saudi Arabia by cardiac arrest.

“My father had been in Saudi Arabia for the last 20 years to earn livelihood for family. He had done nothing wrong but he was arrested from a function without reason before being subjected to severe physical torture, which caused his immediate death,” he said.

Zamin also claimed that when they received the body, they saw visible marks of torture on the face of his father and that his teeth along with one jaw, were completely broken.

He added that other body parts were not checked to decipher whether he had been tortured more and unfortunately, postmortem was not conducted on the body in Pakistan.

Zamin further rejected Sartaj Aziz’s claim that Mohammad Amin had illegally stayed in Saudi Arabia and as evidence, he showed his father’s passport and iqama, which is a residence permit.

Zamin further said that the government did not help his family in any way, and demanded that more should be done to probe his father’s wrongful death.

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